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Demonstrators to gather at Apodaca Park Saturday

Sun-News report

Posted:
07/05/2013 04:54:29 PM MDT

LAS CRUCES — A demonstration to educate interested Las Crucens and the public about plans for a road that would provide a secondary entry and exit point into the proposed Park Ridge urban community will start at 10 a.m. Saturday at Apodaca Park, at the intersection of Solano Drive and Madrid Road.

Members of the Country Club Neighborhood Association (CCNA) and the Las Cruces Tea Party will present information about the proposed road.

"The more people learn about this, the madder they get," said Connie Potter, a member of the CCNA Infrastructure Committee, who is a co-founder and a past president of the neighborhood association.

"This protest is being held to show that we don't want any part of our park to be traded by the city to the developer for use as an access to the proposed hospital that would be built on a nearby property," said Gen Mitchell, president of the Las Cruces Tea Party.

On June 28, the Las Cruces Planning and Zoning Commission voted 3-2 to recommend the approval of a zoning change for 30.745 acres to facilitate the construction of a private hospital.

Park Ridge is a proposed urban community that would be built on 110 acres that used to be the Las Cruces Country Club, at 2700 N. Main St.

The multimillion dollar sale of the property is contingent upon the P&Z commission, and the Las Cruces City Council approving the rezoning.

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Currently, the property is zoned R-1a, single-family residential, but the P & Z commission has recommended to City Council that it grant rezoning to C-3c, high intensity commercial with conditions.

The main entrance into the proposed Park Ridge urban community would be off North Main Street. Developers have approached city officials about constructing a secondary entrance at the corner of Solano and Madrid, where a secondary access and exit point into Apodaca Park now exists. City Council recently met in closed session to discuss the potential of entering into negotiations with developers to construct a second entrance and exit into Park Ridge.

No formal decision has been made by the council. It will have to convene publicly to formally consider any possible sale or exchange of city-owned property, such as Apodaca Park.

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